The Secure Coding Landscape Training

The course introduces some common security concepts, gains an overview about the nature of the vulnerabilities of the used programming languages and platforms, and explains how to handle the risks that apply regarding software security of the software development lifecycle. Without going deeply into technical details, it highlights some of the most interesting and most painful vulnerabilities in various software development technologies, and presents the challenges of security testing, some techniques and tools that one can apply to find any existing problems in their code.

Product and line managers, software developers. 

• Understanding basic concepts of security, IT security and secure coding 
• Understanding Web vulnerabilities both on server and client side
• Realize the severe consequences of unsecure buffer handling
• Be informated about some recent vulnerabilities in development enviroments and frameworks
• Learn about typical coding mistakes and how to avoid them
• Understand security testing approaches and methodologies
• Get sources and further readings on secure coding practices

• Agenda 
• IT security and secure coding
• Security challenges of various platforms - highlights -
• Challenges of security testing
• Principles of security and secure coding
• Knowledge sources